start of week 4 September 26, 2017

Well I feel a little bit more relaxed now.  I think I needed last week to destress from my mom's surgery and then my car dying on me.  I find it interesting that I did not feel any stress about my moms surgery until after I came home and she was home safe and sound.  I knew that I was probably feeling some stress, but I know my body and mind is a little strange and I deal with it on my own time.  I was just extra cranky for my kids last week, but I am feeling much more like myself this week.  I may also be because Jeff is coming home today.  I know he often feels like I am pretty independent and I don't need him for much, but I certainly do rely on him, he just doesn't know it!  Even if he was away during my moms surgery, being married for 18 years, he knew exactly what I needed.  When I called him upset that he had booked the truck in to get winter tires and that he also wanted to take the truck in for brakes, I think I lost it a little on him.  UMMM we have no car, how can we manage without any vehicle.  But I know jeff, he wanted to make sure if we only had the one vehicle, it had to be safe.  He knew exactly how to "deal" with me lol.   And the even funnier thing he could "feel" my stress in my text message.  Looking forward to him coming home for the week.  Maybe not looking forward to possibly buying a new car, I hate car shopping, I hate making a deal.  I hate spending money.

Had a surprise delivery this morning of scones from my good friend down the road, always sooooo good.

Nathan

Well today he got up he seemed to be feeling pretty good, I didn't notice much in him.  But I noticed he was yawning a lot, and he was looking really pale about 11:30.  I asked him if he would like to take an Advil because he was looking so pale, I asked him if he had a migraine, he deflected me.  Finally when I went to get the Advil, he said, I already took a Tylenol this morning because I had a headache.  ahhh ok well you can take an Advil too as well as the Tylenol.  I instructed him to take his migraine meds as soon as he feels any nausea.  He wasn't too keen on this but I think he will do it.  

French

Nathan isn't too keen on the Rosetta Stone way of learning French so far.  I think I am going to have to start reviewing his lessons that he has completed and then, maybe come up with some alternate learning activities, I am not sure, or maybe sit with him and then maybe go over some things.  I think today it did help, he found that his teacher had a lesson on grammar.  He watched some of it, until, I noticed his headache was too much.  I am going to have to help him figure out how he can learn another language successfully.  I think he needs to understand that the more he hears it he will just pick it up and learn it.  He was speaking full sentences at about 12 -18 months, I am sure he can pick up a second language easy.  He says maybe he is too old and his brain is already set.  Oddly enough I thought the immersiveness of Rosetta Stone would be what would work for him, but I think that he finds that part the most frustrating.  He can get the answers, but he is frustrated that he doesn't 100 percent understand.  I think he maybe needs some kind of text book to look at as well.  Or maybe we will try again tomorrow without a headache and do more of the teachers grammar lesson.  As soon as he did it, I could see that it did help with him understanding some of the conjugations.  He seemed to be able to understand what the conjugations were.  I think it took me about 6 years of conjugating in class as rote memorization before I actually understood what we were doing.  I could conjugate verbs, but I had no idea what I was doing or what it meant.  

Science

No science yesterday but he did complete science today.  I talked with him about what he learned today, and said maybe tomorrow I could go over things with him and just make sure he really understands what he is doing and the concept involved.  Although he did do an assignment and received 95% so I am thinking he does understand what he is doing.  I think spending an extra day reviewing it will maybe help him in the long run though.  After his reading today, he did have one question for me and man so a Nathan question.  I knew he would ask it because the book told him what to do but now why he was doing it.  Glad he was able to ask me.  And I hope that when he does go to school, he also has the confidence to ask the questions in class as well.

LA/Socials

nathan completed a unit of each yesterday, but not today, due to migraine

Math

really have to get Nathan back on track for math.  He has not done math in almost 2 weeks.  He was going to start on his new book today, but migraines and math do not get along, he said if his head is feeling better this afternoon he would do a lesson.

Into to online learning 

Yeah almost finished, Nathan is on the last chapter of this course.  I think he will be glad when he is finished so he has more time to think about his other courses.  I do feel it was an absolutely valuable courses and he has learned so much from it

Genevieve

Genevieve has continued on with her studies.  I think she is doing quite well with her German.  I need to check on her math, although she says she has completed 7 extra lessons in math.  She is working on her book today.  She is working on her drawing program trying to get some ideas going for pages.

Yesterday grandpa called her up and asked her if she could cut his hair as Grandma is out of commission.  I think she had fun with that.

Here is a link to an article in the Hope standard of my dad and his seniors swim team at the BC seniors games.  Too bad my dad could not compete as it was the same time as my moms surgery, but he has been training hard for it, and having fun at the same time.

Hope Standard, write up on my dads swim team!